Key Points and Summary on Yamat0-Class Battleships – The Imperial Japanese Navy’s WWII-era Yamato-class warships were the ...

Prior to World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy embraced the Kantai Kessen strategy, which envisioned victory through a ...

Yamato-Class Battleships: Japan’s Naval Giants That Couldn’t Withstand Air Power. Following World War I, the major Allied powers convened to determine a potential end to the naval arms race.

Known as the Super Yamato-class, the Design A-150 battleship program began in late 1938. As conceived by its designers, the massive behemoth was to be armed with at least six 510mm (20-inch) guns ...

The wreck of one of the two Yamato-class battleships, the Musashi, was discovered early in March 2015 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. At 241 meters (791 feet) in length, the Izumo is 51 meters ...

The Musashi was built as part of the Yamato class of vessels planned in 1937, of which there only were two battleships. They were designed to offset projected American numerical superiority in an ...